Sandy, Jeremy and Rafael standing by a blue sign that says Daniel Rutherford Building, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences

9 members of the lab standing next to a blue sign that reads Daniel Rutherford Building, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences

End of era in the lab @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
as we say goodbye to @rafadscruz.bsky.social and @jeremywyman.bsky.social.
It’s been a pleasure having you both in the team. Wishing you both the best for your next steps in Australia 🇦🇺 and Brazil 🇧🇷 🌿

This is also common in Rutaceae. I wonder how many of these are just simple leaves with weird petioles.

Sorry guys, I needed to purge the old Botany Feed to remove some nsfw posts that were getting too frequent. I tried to correct the old one, but in the meantime, after some modifications, I deleted it by accident.

However, this is the patched version that should work well.

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Identification of a tetrahedral apical cell preserved within a fossilized fern fiddlehead The gradual unfurling of fronds from tightly coiled tips, termed fiddleheads or croziers, is one of the most recognizable features of the fern lineage…

Rafael @rafadscruz.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new paper about fern fiddlehead evolution @currentbiology.bsky.social

Read the paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks @palaeojules.bsky.social for the wonderful reconstructions!

🚩Shedding light on fern stems! 🪴🌿
Read more by @rafadscruz.bsky.social 1url.cz/41ke0
The #stems of #ferns are important as #functional response #traits in #competition for space and light, as well as for reaching optimal #microhabitats in #stressful #environments
#GoBelowground #clonality #rhizome

I have created this starter pack for all fern enthusiasts.
Gotta catch'em all!

Reply to be added 🌿💚👇

#Fern #Botany #Plantscience #Pteridology #Frond

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Many like botany and mentioned it outside of a scientific context. And other users used some tags to promote inappropriate content. I've narrowed the criteria a bit to make a better selection now. Let me know if you users start to find too many weird posts in the feed again.

Ok, I will do some maintenance soon.

BlueSky /BlueSky São Paulo

I hope this meme is appreciated here as well.

Brazil, you're setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky! 🥇

Brasil, você está estabelecendo novos recordes de atividade no Bluesky! 🥇

I edited again the Botany feed, with some new tags, and ranking the content by a ranking that takes into account freshness/likes (it was random before), since a lot of non-related and non-academic content was appearing. It is adjustable, so let me know if you are not happy.

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I suspect you want this feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

A brown, hairy tree fern fiddlehead, still curled in a tight spiral with four smaller spirals inside, creating a nice contrast with the series of straight fronds behind.

Been too long since I shared any #Hawaii wildlife! Catching up on processing images, here's a geometry lesson I got from a native Hāpu'u tree fern while visiting the Big Island. :) #endemic #botany

The Mysteries of Plant “Intelligence” Scientists are arguing about whether concepts like memory, consciousness, and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom. May 01, 2024 On a freezing day in December 2021, I arrived in Madi...

Scientists are not arguing about this nonsense. Please stop this. Many fascinating plant science topics to cover @TheAtlantic

THE MYSTERIES OF PLANT “INTELLIGENCE” 🤡 apple.news/ANsyOpmlMQZy...

Adders tongue fern @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I edited again the Botany feed, with some new tags, and ranking the content by a ranking that takes into account freshness/likes (it was random before), since a lot of non-related and non-academic content was appearing. It is adjustable, so let me know if you are not happy.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

I just (re)created a Botany feed tracking several Botany terms.
The last one was quite limited and impossible to edit.

I hope it is useful =)

Botany and Plant Science!

Screenshot of the poster. It shows the evolution of multicellular plants and other details on plants and life in general in great detail and with miniature illustrations.

I´m in love with this interactive poster on the evolution of plants!! 🤩🌿
madland.science/greening.php

You're welcome! (recipes to lots of reagents you wanted to know how to make) geneseesci.com/wp-content/u...

Students are allowed two notecards for exams - look at this one

The botany feed has a system of keywords related to botany, including plant ecology.

Enjoying this one from USGS.

A microscope images of brown spiral of fossil plant leaves

Microscope image of a cross section through the stem of a fossil plant. The stem is circular, light brown and individual cells can be seen

Come and join the group!
3yr postdoc position investigating the origin of apical growth in land plants focused on the Rhynie chert fossils! Deadline 30/10/2023 Full details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The #Ginkgoales mega-diagram I've been working on is finally done, so I've written a #blog post to showcase it! There is a key to all the species included and some personal thoughts I had while doing it. I hope you enjoy!
palaeoflora.blogspot.com/2023/10/too-...
#paleoart #paleobotany #ginkgo

I just (re)created a Botany feed tracking several Botany terms.
The last one was quite limited and impossible to edit.

I hope it is useful =)

We also use this for some fixatives in plant histology.

No research is ever finished. We just run out of time, money or motivation.

Science and animal nerds: check out this fun game! Every day, a new mystery animal is posted. You have 20 guesses to narrow down which species it is. (Phylogenetic trees are HARD, y'all.)

metazooa.com/game

Here are my results from yesterday.